Vladimir Lenin Quotes
A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution.
Lenin, Vladimir I. "The Collapse of the Second International." 1915. Lenin Collected Works, Vol. 21, Progress Publishers, 1964, p. 213.
Khrushchev did not originate this quotation. It was first stated by Lenin. See {620087}.
1st Duke of Wellington
Vladimir Lenin. In 1957 Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev used the first sentence of this quotation in a speech to the Supreme Soviet. See {240121}. He did not say that he was quoting Lenin, but many of the delegates probably knew this.
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known by his alias Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as the first and founding head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1924 and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924. Under his administration, Russia, and later the Soviet Union, became a one-party socialist state governed by the Soviet Communist Party. A Marxist, he developed a variant of this communist ideology known as Leninism.
